{"id":2683,"date":"2018-05-11T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2018-05-11T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:41:39","slug":"what-will-tuition-be-in-2040","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/11\/what-will-tuition-be-in-2040\/","title":{"rendered":"What will tuition be in 2040?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2678\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2678\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW051118-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2678\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW051118-3-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"What will tuition be in 2040?\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW051118-3-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW051118-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW051118-3-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW051118-3.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2678\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What will tuition be in 2040?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m not big on prognostication, but this could be a relatively easy one, if all of the conditions affecting tuition and fees from 2000 to the present remain consistent until 2040. (That could be a big IF.) The trend line is pretty straight: bit.ly\/BC-tuition. I&#8217;ll let you do the extrapolation. Business Insider reports a different take by analysts at JP Morgan Funds, who think annual increases will be 5%: bit.ly\/scary-college-cost.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2687\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2687\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bc-tuition-trend.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2687\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bc-tuition-trend-300x236.png\" alt=\"BC Tuition &amp; Fees, from http:\/\/www.bc.edu\/publications\/factbook.html - a graph showing a linear increase of tuition from about $20,000 in 2000 to $50,000 in 2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bc-tuition-trend-300x236.png 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bc-tuition-trend-768x603.png 768w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/bc-tuition-trend.png 903w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2687\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BC Tuition &amp; Fees, from http:\/\/www.bc.edu\/publications\/factbook.html<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not big on prognostication, but this could be a relatively easy one, if all of the conditions affecting tuition and fees from 2000 to the present remain consistent until 2040. (That could be a big IF.) The trend line is pretty straight: bit.ly\/BC-tuition. I&#8217;ll let you do the extrapolation. Business Insider reports a different &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/11\/what-will-tuition-be-in-2040\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What will tuition be in 2040?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-college","tag-tuition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2688,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions\/2688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}